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Wildlife Conservation Society Climate Adaptation Fund

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Climate Adaptation Fund is a program to support projects that demonstrate effective interventions for wildlife adaptation to climate change. With funding provided by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and managed by the Wildlife Conservation WCS, the WCS Climate Adaptation Fund provided its first $2 million in competitive grants in its first year of grant-making in 2011, and in each year to follow. The Fund now provides a total of $2.5 million in grant awards between $50,000 and $250,000 to conservation non-profit organizations each year.

This resource was featured in the March 22, 2018, ASAP Newsletter.

"The Wildlife Conservation Society Climate Adaptation Fund provides grant awards to conservation non-profits across the United States to catalyze innovative, science-driven projects responding to the impacts of climate change on wildlife and people. The Fund provides a total of $2.5 million in grant awards between $50,000 and $250,000 to conservation non-profit organizations each year."

Awards will be made to non-profit conservation organizations for applied, on-the-ground projects focused on implementing priority conservation actions in order to support wildlife adaptation to climate change at a landscape scale. For example:

Projects that demonstrate applied management responses for wildlife adaptation in terrestrial, freshwater, or estuarine systems, including efforts to enhance the resilience of climate-impacted habitats or facilitate their transition to a different yet functional ecological state.

Projects to enhance or sustain the adaptive capacity of ecosystems, landscape functionality, and critical biological processes in the face of climate change.

Projects that restore and sustain core habitat or create connectivity for fish and wildlife in order to achieve explicit climate adaptation goals.

Pilot projects to exhibit successful on-the-ground actions for climate adaptation that can be replicated across a landscape.

Some example projects supported by the WCS Climate Adaptation Fund in 2016 include:

The mission of the Wildlife Conservation Society is to save wildlife and wild places worldwide - through science, global conservation, education and the management of the world's largest system of urban wildlife parks, led by the flagship Bronx Zoo. Together these activities change attitudes towards nature and help people imagine wildlife and humans living in harmony. WCS is committed to this mission because it is essential to the integrity of life on Earth.